60.30 Color Groups

Elements of a color group C are colored in the following way. The elements having the same color as C.identity form a subgroup H, which has finite index n in C. H is called the ColorSubgroup of C. Elements of C have the same color if and only if they are in the same right coset of H in C. A fixed list of right cosets of H in C, called ColorCosets, therefore determines a labelling of the colors, which runs from 1 to n. Elements of H by definition have color 1, i.e., the coset with representative C.identity is always the first element of ColorCosets. Right multiplication by a fixed element g of C induces a permutation p(g) of the colors of the parent of C. This defines a natural homomorphism of C into the permutation group of degree n. The image of this homomorphism is called the ColorPermGroup of C, and the homomorphism to it is called the ColorHomomorphism of C.

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